Burt Lake Crayfish Beautiful Blue

Crayfish coloring is thought to be part genetics and part diet. The pigment responsible for coloration in crustaceans is a carotenoid called astaxanthin. It usually expresses itself as the color red if unbound to a protein, or a variety of other colors if joined to a protein. Blue crayfish are rare, making up only about 1% of the population.

Beautiful blue lobster

sea creatures

An estimated one in 2 million lobsters are blue. A genetic mutation causes a blue lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein. The protein and a red carotenoid molecule known as astaxanthin combine to form a blue complex known as crustacyanin, giving the lobster its blue colour. ~ Not a blue crab at all in Finding Nemo, but this is too awesome of a factoid to pass up!

Burt Lake Crayfish II we don't have crayfish but we have great big blue claw crabs yum

Pakayla Biehn // flower girl //

painting by pakayla biehn based on double exposure photography

"Senegal's Lake Retba, or as the French refer to it Lac Rose, is pinker than any milkshake. Experts say the lake gives off its pink hue due to cyanobacteria, a harmless halophilic bacteria found in the water. Lake Retba has a high salt content, much like that of the Dead Sea, allowing people to float effortlessly in the massive pink water."

What!! There is a pink lake and no one told me! I am soo bucket listing this shit! Senegal's Lake Retba, or as the French refer to it Lac Rose, is pinker than any milkshake. Experts say the lake gives off its pink hue due to cyanobacteria, a harmless halophilic bacteria found in the water. Lake Retba has a high salt content, much like that of the Dead Sea, allowing people to float effortlessly in the massive pink water.